In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens / 1949 - 2011

Dostoevsky asked if there was no God couldn't everything be permitted? Not according to Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative.

Books that Will Change your View on Life and the World

The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins;

Guns, Germs, and Steel - by Jared Diamond;

The Grand Design - by Stephen Hawkins;

god is not Great - by Christopher Hitchens;

The Stranger - by Albert Camus; and

A Theory of Justice - by John Rawls.

A short poem about totalitarian dictatorships

The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips

W.H, Auden1968